[Ham-Computers] Jave Script Damaged by installing Security/Hot Fixes, W2K

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Group,

Running W2K on Intel P-III's.  Since early July,  on two of the three 
machines here the installation of a Microsoft update downloaded from their site 
resulted, after reboot, in Norton not being able to start.  I couldn't uninstall 
and reinstall Norton because it also disabled Add/Remove Programs from the 
Control Panel.  The error reported there was a Scripting Error.  Also, the Search 
for Files function wouldn't work.  No error, just did nothing.

After it happened the second time on one of the machines, I discovered while 
reinstalling the OS (again) that the machine had two damaged Java Script 
installations, matching the two update failures.  This presumable explains why 
Add/Remove Programs wouldn't run.

Has anyone else heard of this?  The installation attempts were made with 
Norton Internet Security and NAV running and the machines connected to the cable 
modem through the router, which is the way that I've "always" done it.  Norton 
versions were 2002 on one machine and 2003 on the other.  One of the machines 
plus a third one that has suffered this yet are waiting on installation of the 
patches that took down the remaining machine last Friday night.  Does anyone 
have any suggestions?

I will mention that I re-installed IIS on one of the machines (the one that's 
been down twice) while the machine was booted Safe.  This didn't work at all 
as when the machine booted normally, IIS couldn't find itself, possibly 
because network support wasn't running during the installation.  :-)  So that isn't 
a "feel-good" solution.  

Robert Downs - Houston
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